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Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:47 am
by bigchiefbc
iblamesummers wrote:man. i'm not trying to be an elitist snob or nuthin' cuz i spend my fair share of being lobotomized-out on video games and the INTERNET and watching professional sports and stuff but this thread is mega-depressing.
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:57 am
by iblamesummers
Gunner Recall wrote:Books (or tits) or gtfo
i've actually read 'Infinite Jest' twice & am currently reading 'V.' but i wouldn't consider either one "awesome." i don't exactly look for instant gratification or "entertainment" when i read. books.
if i had actually read any (cyber-punk) science fiction, early stephen king, ayn rand or even
cough magic realism i would have made a recommendation. really i feel left-out. (really i'm just a cocksucker...).
i am GTFO...
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:18 am
by Gunner Recall
Don't make me throw the book at you.
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:21 am
by iblamesummers
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:38 am
by smile_man
iblamesummers wrote:man. i'm not trying to be an elitist snob or nuthin' cuz i spend my fair share of being lobotomized-out on video games and the INTERNET and watching professional sports and stuff but this thread is mega-depressing.
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:18 am
by veteransdaypoppy
iblamesummers wrote:man. i'm not trying to be an elitist snob or nuthin' cuz i spend my fair share of being lobotomized-out on video games and the INTERNET and watching professional sports and stuff but this thread is mega-depressing.
iblamesummers wrote:man. you ever heard of 'if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all?'
this.
you skipped over the mentions of hemingway and vonnegut, ps.
way to namedrop infinite jest.
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:33 am
by iblamesummers
veteransdaypoppy wrote:iblamesummers wrote:man. i'm not trying to be an elitist snob or nuthin' cuz i spend my fair share of being lobotomized-out on video games and the INTERNET and watching professional sports and stuff but this thread is mega-depressing.
iblamesummers wrote:man. you ever heard of 'if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all?'
this.
you skipped over the mentions of hemingway and vonnegut, ps.
way to namedrop infinite jest.
only (forced to) read
Old Man & the Sea in High School & i've never read Vonnegut. some of the better stuff previously mentioned i own copies--Satre.
Nausea-- of but have not read. yet. except Vonnegut. i read a few articles when he used to write for
In These Times though. i didn't name drop DFW Gunner Recall did earlier. yes i do like meta-fiction though SOSUEME. i am a jackass and a nimrod but i do my thug-bizell.
peace.
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:36 am
by iblamesummers
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:12 am
by Gunner Recall
I admit I am a DFW fanboy after having read consider the lobster and broom of the system, though IJ looks like a bit overkill.
I can only hope some day I can write my breakout novel and then later found on the patio dead with a belt wrapped around my neck.
iblamesummers wrote: some of the better stuff previously mentioned i own copies--Satre. Nausea-- of but have not read. yet.
I'm sorta the same way, I've got an impressive library but I've read maybe less than 1/4th of it.
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:24 pm
by 1,2,3, Pull Out!
Less Than Zero & American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
J Pod- Douglas Coupland
Killing Yourself To Live & Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klosterman
For Whom The Bell Tolls- Earnest Hemingway
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon
The Sot-Weed Factor- John Barth
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:00 pm
by iblamesummers
1,2,3, Pull Out! wrote:& American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
now that's an AWESOME book !!!
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:12 pm
by bigchiefbc
Das Parfum - Patrick Süskind (fantastic novel, blew me away)
To Reign in Hell - Steven Brust (the fall of lucifer told from a different point of view)
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (his best if you ask me)
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes (greek king of comedy. some hysterically funny plays in here)
The Forever War - Joe Halderman (best sci-fi book EVAR)
Island in the Sea of Time - S.M. Stirling (best alternate history/time travel novel EVAR)
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:24 pm
by 1,2,3, Pull Out!
iblamesummers wrote:1,2,3, Pull Out! wrote:& American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
now that's an AWESOME book !!!
I love how every book Ellis has made since then has had some reference or mentions of Patrick Bateman in it.
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:27 pm
by magiclawnchair
player piano - kurt vonnegut
rum diary - hunter s thompson
dune - frank herbert
childhoods end - sir arthur c clarke
rendezvous with rama - sir arthur c clarke
stranger in a strange land - robert a heinlein
flowers for algernon - daniel keyes
these are all very good books.
i havent read a book all year.....
Re: Awesome books...
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:59 am
by Wizard
Nausea and the stranger are two of the best books i've ever read. No Exit by JPS, also.
But i think after high school i needed to stop reading existentialist books, i was starting to read Nietzsche and Dostoevsky and that shit is just way too dark for people that don't wear black eyeliner.
so i read everything tom robbins had to offer.
and now its all...
PHILIP K. DICK
